Re: Enabling Serial Port Console Login
don't think you need to recompile the kernel
what did you do to try to connect?
take a look at /etc/inittab if you haven't already it shows some
examples for setting up a console on a serial port. make sure its the
right kind of cable too, you mentioned using a cross cable ?? shouldn't
it be just straight through..(not sure) worth a try though.
nate
Peter Kim wrote:
>
> I need to be able to login to my Linux web server, via a communications
> server (Portmaster). The communications server will be connected to web
> server with a serial cable.
>
> I've connected my PC to my web server's serial port (COM1) and (COM2) with
> a cross cable and tried to login with Tera Term. Tera Term cannot connect.
> Nothing shows on the terminal and anything I type does not appear on the
> screen.
>
> I have heard that I have to recompile the kernel with some options set to
> make COM1 AND COM2 come "alive".
>
> Questions:
> 0. Is it possible to have COM1, COM2, or BOTH come alive?
> 1. What options do I have to set when I compile my kernel? I am running
> "make xconfig" and I can't seem to find any option that turns this feature
> "on" on the GUI.
>
> Help!
> :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
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